@rodcetnife4: "Hiya,
Don't know how this started, but recently when I try to double-click on a
folder I get the dialog that asks me what program I want to open it with. I
chose Explorer and then it opens, but it won't let me check the box so that
it will always use Explorer to open folders with.
Second symptom: I have two "Open" right-click entries when I right-click on
a folder. The second entry works no problem, but the top one, which is in
boldface, gets the the "Open With..." dialog again.
Had this problem with the My Documents icon on the Desktop, but found the
problem and fixed that in the registry, but this has my completely stumped.
Any ideas?
=/"
    @Kapasitor: "sometimes the 'shelliconcache' file gets corrupt and can cause similar
problems. ITC you would just delete it and reboot. Do you have a
'fancy' mouse? with software needed to run it? could be that driver,
AND another thing,  your associations maybe screwy
news:<email_address>
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stumped."
    @jackdinsssNO: "That happens to me when my mouse gets stuck with right click down.
Jiggling the mouse to unstick the switch clears my problem.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:33:05 -0700, "Rodcet Nife"
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Jack from Taxacola (formerly Pensacola), Florida"
    @tessandsam: "I have the same problem. I deleted the file you suggest and rebooted but 
  no change.
Another symptom I have is "New" has disapeared off the right click menu 
and also off the "File" menu on windows explorer.
This has happened since I tried and failed installing a new graphics card.
I've googled for a couple of hours now and posted to other groups with 
no success - I hope someone has a solution. The only thing I can think 
to do now is a clean install of windows and I'd rather not if I can help it.
Sam.
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    @rodcetnife4: "Aye, I tried the same thing suggested by JAD and got the same thing you did.
Searched the net to no avail as well. Can't find anything in the registry
that should be causing this. I'll let this thread sit for a few days and see
if anyone's got the answer, but if not, guess I'll do a complete reinstall
of Windows on my day off. Mostly wanted to learn how to fix things like this
without going that route, so it's just a inconvience of time.
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it."
    @rodcetnife4: "Thats just it, my mouse is a simple OEM mouse. It must have something to do
with the two "Open" entried on the right click.. a highlighted (I'm assuming
that menaing default action) Open and a unhighlighted open below it.
Right-click having two open options above the "Open With..." option.
Something is causing a conflict.
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I
that
on
stumped."
    @jackdinsssNO: "Try this:
Pick up the mouse with your left hand, then insert the nail of
your right index finger in the little groove between the mouse's
right click button and the main body of the mouse.  
With the right index finger lift the right mouse button until it 
stretches and separates a bit from the lower portion of the
mouse.  Be careful not to lift it so far that it breaks off.  Once
lifted remove your nail quickly so that the button snaps back 
down.  Do this successively several times.
This always unsticks the switch on my standard run-of-the
mill mouse and returns proper control to the left click button.
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:48:19 -0700, "Rodcet Nife"
<quote>
Jack from Taxacola (formerly Pensacola), Florida"
    @tessandsam: "I realy don't think this is a hardware problem Jackson. This is a fault 
with explorer. Maybe a programs behaviour might change because of a 
dodgy mouse button but entries on menus wouldn't. Somehow, somewhere, 
the windows code is fundamentally buggered.
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    @tessandsam: "I hate to let a problem go like this.
I'm going to take a copy of my registry - I assume there's one or more 
entries there related to this problem - reformat my hd and ask some 
people I know who know more than me.
If you are willing, I'd love a copy of your registry. We both got the 
same problem within days of each other....I can't believe no one else 
has. If I can find a solution, I'll post it on the net in various places 
  so others can get a fix where we found none.
Hope to hear back from you. Rizole.
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    @rodcetnife4: "I would except that I'm very sensitive about privacy issues. I've found
program key codes and other personal info while exploring my registy in the
past.
It is a great idea, however, and I have to wonder if some of the file
comparison programs out there might not be able to detail the differences
between a proper registry after a full reinstall to the point of where we
were before the problem, and a copy of our corrupted registries. I've seen
some that do this with text files and some binaries.
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did.
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card."
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